Description This work is subtitled Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests.
It is an account of the author's adventures during his travels across the Cascade range in Washington Territory in 1853.
Major Theodore Woolsey Winthrop (September 22, 1828 - June 10, 1861) was a writer, lawyer, and world traveller.
He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War.
Biography: Winthrop was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
He was descended through his father from Governor John Winthrop and through his mother from George (Joris) Woolsey, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam, Thomas Cornell (settler) 1] and Jonathan Edwards.
He graduated in 1848 from Yale University, where his uncle Theodore Dwight Woolsey was President and he was a member of the Phi Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, he travelled for a year in Great Britain and Europe and then through the United States.
After contributing to periodicals, short sketches, and stories, which attracted little attention, Winthrop enlisted in the 7th Regiment, New York State Militia, an early volunteer unit of the Federal Army that answered President Abraham Lincoln's call for troops in 1861.
He wrote a popular essay about the experience titled Our March to Washington.
He was appointed Major and soon became an aide-de-camp to Maj.
Benjamin Butler, commander of the Department of Virginia headquartered at Fort Monroe.
Battle of Big Bethel: At the Battle of Big Bethel on June 10, 1861, he volunteered for General Ebenezer W.
Peirce's staff and drew up a crude plan of battle.
After a Federal attack to the enemy right flank was foiled, Winthrop led an ill-fated assault on the Confederate left held by four companies of the 1st Regiment North Carolina Infantry, under the command of Colonel (later Lieutenant General) Daniel Harvey Hill.
In the heat of battle, Major Winthrop leapt onto the trunk of a fallen tree and reportedly yelled, One more charge boys, and.
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